Following text is from GI install guide (sections that relates to the upgrade).
"Oracle recommends that you leave Oracle RAC instances running. When you start the root script on each node, that node's instances are shut down and then started up again by the rootupgrade.sh script. If you upgrade from release 11.2.0.1 to any later version (11.2.0.2 or 11.2.0.3), then all nodes are selected by default. You cannot select or de-select the nodes. For single instance Oracle Databases on the cluster, only those that use Oracle ASM need to be shut down. Listeners do not need to be shut down."
"Oracle recommends that you select all cluster member nodes for the upgrade, and then shut down database instances on each node before you run the upgrade root script, starting the database instance up again on each node after the upgrade is complete. You can also use this procedure to upgrade a subset of nodes in the cluster."
"Oracle recommends that you upgrade Oracle ASM at the same time that you upgrade the Oracle Clusterware binaries. Until Oracle ASM is upgraded, Oracle databases that use Oracle ASM cannot be created. Until Oracle ASM is upgraded, the 11g release 2 (11.2) Oracle ASM management tools in the Grid home (for example, srvctl) will not work."
"At the end of the upgrade, if you set the OCR backup location manually to the older release Oracle Clusterware home (CRS home), then you must change the OCR backup location to the Oracle Grid Infrastructure home (Grid home). If you did not set the OCR backup location manually, then this issue does not concern you."
"To upgrade existing 11.2.0.1 Oracle Grid Infrastructure installations to Oracle Grid Infrastructure 11.2.0.2, you must first verify if you need to apply any mandatory patches for upgrade to succeed. Refer to Section F.6 for steps to check readiness.
To upgrade existing Oracle Grid Infrastructure from 11.2.0.2, to 11.2.0.3 or later, you must apply patch 11.2.0.2.1 (11.2.0.2 PSU 1) or later."
From the upgrade guide
"Known Issue with the Deinstallation Tool for This Release
Cause: After upgrading from 11.2.0.1 or 11.2.0.2 to 11.2.0.3, deinstallation of the Oracle home in the earlier release of Oracle Database may result in the deletion of the old Oracle base that was associated with it. This may also result in the deletion of data files, audit files, etc., which are stored under the old Oracle base.
Action: Before deinstalling the Oracle home in the earlier release, edit the orabase_cleanup.lst file found in the $Oracle_Home/utl directory and remove the "oradata" and "admin" entries. Then, deinstall the Oracle home using the 11.2.0.3 deinstallation tool."
Combination of patches used in the two upgrades mentioned above are not needed here (9706490 or 12539000). 11.2.0.1 to 11.2.0.2 ASM Rolling Upgrade [ID 1274629.1] has a new section for upgrading to 11.2.0.3.
Cluster verification utility can check the required patches for the platform before the upgrade. For Linux x86_64 the required patch was 9413827. Running cluvfy with pre upgrade mode would check the pre-reqs needed. Only two stood out in this case
Checking for Oracle patch "9413827" in home "/opt/app/11.2.0/grid". Node Name Applied Required Comment ------------ ------------------------ ------------------------ ---------- rac5 missing 9413827 failed rac4 missing 9413827 failed Result: Check for Oracle patch "9413827" in home "/opt/app/11.2.0/grid" failed There are no oracle patches required for home "/opt/app/11.2.0/grid3". Check: Kernel parameter for "shmmni" Node Name Current Configured Required Status Comment ---------------- ------------ ------------ ------------ ------------ ------------ rac5 4096 unknown 4096 failed Configured value too low. rac4 4096 unknown 4096 failed Configured value too low. Result: Kernel parameter check failed for "shmmni"After applying the required patch and running the fixup script all the checks passed.
Below is the full output from the pre-reqs check.
./runcluvfy.sh stage -pre crsinst -upgrade -n rac4,rac5 -rolling -src_crshome /opt/app/11.2.0/grid -dest_crshome /opt/app/11.2.0/grid3 -dest_version 11.2.0.3.0 -fixup -fixupdir /home/oracle/fixupscript -verbose Performing pre-checks for cluster services setup Checking node reachability... Check: Node reachability from node "rac4" Destination Node Reachable? ------------------------------------ ------------------------ rac4 yes rac5 yes Result: Node reachability check passed from node "rac4" Checking user equivalence... Check: User equivalence for user "oracle" Node Name Status ------------------------------------ ------------------------ rac5 passed rac4 passed Result: User equivalence check passed for user "oracle" Checking CRS user consistency Result: CRS user consistency check successful Checking node connectivity... Checking hosts config file... Node Name Status ------------------------------------ ------------------------ rac5 passed rac4 passed Verification of the hosts config file successful Interface information for node "rac5" Name IP Address Subnet Gateway Def. Gateway HW Address MTU ------ --------------- --------------- --------------- --------------- ----------------- ------ eth0 192.168.0.85 192.168.0.0 0.0.0.0 192.168.0.100 08:00:27:68:31:61 1500 eth0 192.168.0.89 192.168.0.0 0.0.0.0 192.168.0.100 08:00:27:68:31:61 1500 eth1 192.168.0.87 192.168.0.0 0.0.0.0 192.168.0.100 08:00:27:2B:9C:30 1500 Interface information for node "rac4" Name IP Address Subnet Gateway Def. Gateway HW Address MTU ------ --------------- --------------- --------------- --------------- ----------------- ------ eth0 192.168.0.86 192.168.0.0 0.0.0.0 192.168.0.100 08:00:27:C1:59:A3 1500 eth0 192.168.0.91 192.168.0.0 0.0.0.0 192.168.0.100 08:00:27:C1:59:A3 1500 eth0 192.168.0.90 192.168.0.0 0.0.0.0 192.168.0.100 08:00:27:C1:59:A3 1500 eth1 192.168.0.88 192.168.0.0 0.0.0.0 192.168.0.100 08:00:27:7C:F4:94 1500 Check: Node connectivity for interface "eth0" Source Destination Connected? ------------------------------ ------------------------------ ---------------- rac5[192.168.0.85] rac5[192.168.0.89] yes rac5[192.168.0.85] rac5[192.168.0.87] yes rac5[192.168.0.85] rac4[192.168.0.86] yes rac5[192.168.0.85] rac4[192.168.0.91] yes rac5[192.168.0.85] rac4[192.168.0.90] yes rac5[192.168.0.85] rac4[192.168.0.88] yes rac5[192.168.0.89] rac5[192.168.0.87] yes rac5[192.168.0.89] rac4[192.168.0.86] yes rac5[192.168.0.89] rac4[192.168.0.91] yes rac5[192.168.0.89] rac4[192.168.0.90] yes rac5[192.168.0.89] rac4[192.168.0.88] yes rac5[192.168.0.87] rac4[192.168.0.86] yes rac5[192.168.0.87] rac4[192.168.0.91] yes rac5[192.168.0.87] rac4[192.168.0.90] yes rac5[192.168.0.87] rac4[192.168.0.88] yes rac4[192.168.0.86] rac4[192.168.0.91] yes rac4[192.168.0.86] rac4[192.168.0.90] yes rac4[192.168.0.86] rac4[192.168.0.88] yes rac4[192.168.0.91] rac4[192.168.0.90] yes rac4[192.168.0.91] rac4[192.168.0.88] yes rac4[192.168.0.90] rac4[192.168.0.88] yes Result: Node connectivity passed for interface "eth0" Check: TCP connectivity of subnet "192.168.0.0" Source Destination Connected? ------------------------------ ------------------------------ ---------------- rac4:192.168.0.86 rac5:192.168.0.85 passed rac4:192.168.0.86 rac5:192.168.0.89 passed rac4:192.168.0.86 rac5:192.168.0.87 passed rac4:192.168.0.86 rac4:192.168.0.91 passed rac4:192.168.0.86 rac4:192.168.0.90 passed rac4:192.168.0.86 rac4:192.168.0.88 passed Result: TCP connectivity check passed for subnet "192.168.0.0" Check: Node connectivity for interface "eth1" Checking subnet mask consistency... Subnet mask consistency check passed for subnet "192.168.0.0". Subnet mask consistency check passed. Result: Node connectivity check passed Checking multicast communication... Checking subnet "192.168.0.0" for multicast communication with multicast group "230.0.1.0"... Check of subnet "192.168.0.0" for multicast communication with multicast group "230.0.1.0" passed. Check of multicast communication passed. Checking OCR integrity... OCR integrity check passed Checking ASMLib configuration. Node Name Status ------------------------------------ ------------------------ rac5 passed rac4 passed Result: Check for ASMLib configuration passed. Check: Total memory Node Name Available Required Status ------------ ------------------------ ------------------------ ---------- rac5 1.9641GB (2059516.0KB) 1.5GB (1572864.0KB) passed rac4 1.9641GB (2059516.0KB) 1.5GB (1572864.0KB) passed Result: Total memory check passed Check: Available memory Node Name Available Required Status ------------ ------------------------ ------------------------ ---------- rac5 1004.918MB (1029036.0KB) 50MB (51200.0KB) passed rac4 744.9531MB (762832.0KB) 50MB (51200.0KB) passed Result: Available memory check passed Check: Swap space Node Name Available Required Status ------------ ------------------------ ------------------------ ---------- rac5 3.9987GB (4192956.0KB) 2.9462GB (3089274.0KB) passed rac4 3.9987GB (4192956.0KB) 2.9462GB (3089274.0KB) passed Result: Swap space check passed Check: Free disk space for "rac5:/opt/app/11.2.0/grid3,rac5:/tmp" Path Node Name Mount point Available Required Status ---------------- ------------ ------------ ------------ ------------ ------------ /opt/app/11.2.0/grid3 rac5 / 10.4014GB 7.5GB passed /tmp rac5 / 10.4014GB 7.5GB passed Result: Free disk space check passed for "rac5:/opt/app/11.2.0/grid3,rac5:/tmp" Check: Free disk space for "rac4:/opt/app/11.2.0/grid3,rac4:/tmp" Path Node Name Mount point Available Required Status ---------------- ------------ ------------ ------------ ------------ ------------ /opt/app/11.2.0/grid3 rac4 / 10.8156GB 7.5GB passed /tmp rac4 / 10.8156GB 7.5GB passed Result: Free disk space check passed for "rac4:/opt/app/11.2.0/grid3,rac4:/tmp" Check: User existence for "oracle" Node Name Status Comment ------------ ------------------------ ------------------------ rac5 passed exists(500) rac4 passed exists(500) Checking for multiple users with UID value 500 Result: Check for multiple users with UID value 500 passed Result: User existence check passed for "oracle" Check: Group existence for "oinstall" Node Name Status Comment ------------ ------------------------ ------------------------ rac5 passed exists rac4 passed exists Result: Group existence check passed for "oinstall" Check: Membership of user "oracle" in group "oinstall" [as Primary] Node Name User Exists Group Exists User in Group Primary Status ---------------- ------------ ------------ ------------ ------------ ------------ rac5 yes yes yes yes passed rac4 yes yes yes yes passed Result: Membership check for user "oracle" in group "oinstall" [as Primary] passed Check: Run level Node Name run level Required Status ------------ ------------------------ ------------------------ ---------- rac5 3 3,5 passed rac4 3 3,5 passed Result: Run level check passed Check: Hard limits for "maximum open file descriptors" Node Name Type Available Required Status ---------------- ------------ ------------ ------------ ---------------- rac5 hard 65536 65536 passed rac4 hard 65536 65536 passed Result: Hard limits check passed for "maximum open file descriptors" Check: Soft limits for "maximum open file descriptors" Node Name Type Available Required Status ---------------- ------------ ------------ ------------ ---------------- rac5 soft 1024 1024 passed rac4 soft 65536 1024 passed Result: Soft limits check passed for "maximum open file descriptors" Check: Hard limits for "maximum user processes" Node Name Type Available Required Status ---------------- ------------ ------------ ------------ ---------------- rac5 hard 16384 16384 passed rac4 hard 16384 16384 passed Result: Hard limits check passed for "maximum user processes" Check: Soft limits for "maximum user processes" Node Name Type Available Required Status ---------------- ------------ ------------ ------------ ---------------- rac5 soft 16383 2047 passed rac4 soft 16383 2047 passed Result: Soft limits check passed for "maximum user processes" Checking for Oracle patch "9413827" in home "/opt/app/11.2.0/grid". Node Name Applied Required Comment ------------ ------------------------ ------------------------ ---------- rac5 9413827 9413827 passed rac4 9413827 9413827 passed Result: Check for Oracle patch "9413827" in home "/opt/app/11.2.0/grid" passed There are no oracle patches required for home "/opt/app/11.2.0/grid3". Check: System architecture Node Name Available Required Status ------------ ------------------------ ------------------------ ---------- rac5 x86_64 x86_64 passed rac4 x86_64 x86_64 passed Result: System architecture check passed Check: Kernel version Node Name Available Required Status ------------ ------------------------ ------------------------ ---------- rac5 2.6.18-194.el5 2.6.18 passed rac4 2.6.18-194.el5 2.6.18 passed Result: Kernel version check passed Check: Kernel parameter for "semmsl" Node Name Current Configured Required Status Comment ---------------- ------------ ------------ ------------ ------------ ------------ rac5 3010 3010 250 passed rac4 3010 3010 250 passed Result: Kernel parameter check passed for "semmsl" Check: Kernel parameter for "semmns" Node Name Current Configured Required Status Comment ---------------- ------------ ------------ ------------ ------------ ------------ rac5 385280 385280 32000 passed rac4 385280 385280 32000 passed Result: Kernel parameter check passed for "semmns" Check: Kernel parameter for "semopm" Node Name Current Configured Required Status Comment ---------------- ------------ ------------ ------------ ------------ ------------ rac5 3010 3010 100 passed rac4 3010 3010 100 passed Result: Kernel parameter check passed for "semopm" Check: Kernel parameter for "semmni" Node Name Current Configured Required Status Comment ---------------- ------------ ------------ ------------ ------------ ------------ rac5 128 128 128 passed rac4 128 128 128 passed Result: Kernel parameter check passed for "semmni" Check: Kernel parameter for "shmmax" Node Name Current Configured Required Status Comment ---------------- ------------ ------------ ------------ ------------ ------------ rac5 68719476736 68719476736 1054472192 passed rac4 68719476736 68719476736 1054472192 passed Result: Kernel parameter check passed for "shmmax" Check: Kernel parameter for "shmmni" Node Name Current Configured Required Status Comment ---------------- ------------ ------------ ------------ ------------ ------------ rac5 4096 4096 4096 passed rac4 4096 4096 4096 passed Result: Kernel parameter check passed for "shmmni" Check: Kernel parameter for "shmall" Node Name Current Configured Required Status Comment ---------------- ------------ ------------ ------------ ------------ ------------ rac5 4294967296 4294967296 2097152 passed rac4 4294967296 4294967296 2097152 passed Result: Kernel parameter check passed for "shmall" Check: Kernel parameter for "file-max" Node Name Current Configured Required Status Comment ---------------- ------------ ------------ ------------ ------------ ------------ rac5 6815744 6815744 6815744 passed rac4 6815744 6815744 6815744 passed Result: Kernel parameter check passed for "file-max" Check: Kernel parameter for "ip_local_port_range" Node Name Current Configured Required Status Comment ---------------- ------------ ------------ ------------ ------------ ------------ rac5 between 9000.0 & 65500.0 between 9000.0 & 65500.0 between 9000.0 & 65500.0 passed rac4 between 9000.0 & 65500.0 between 9000.0 & 65500.0 between 9000.0 & 65500.0 passed Result: Kernel parameter check passed for "ip_local_port_range" Check: Kernel parameter for "rmem_default" Node Name Current Configured Required Status Comment ---------------- ------------ ------------ ------------ ------------ ------------ rac5 262144 262144 262144 passed rac4 262144 262144 262144 passed Result: Kernel parameter check passed for "rmem_default" Check: Kernel parameter for "rmem_max" Node Name Current Configured Required Status Comment ---------------- ------------ ------------ ------------ ------------ ------------ rac5 4194304 4194304 4194304 passed rac4 4194304 4194304 4194304 passed Result: Kernel parameter check passed for "rmem_max" Check: Kernel parameter for "wmem_default" Node Name Current Configured Required Status Comment ---------------- ------------ ------------ ------------ ------------ ------------ rac5 262144 262144 262144 passed rac4 262144 262144 262144 passed Result: Kernel parameter check passed for "wmem_default" Check: Kernel parameter for "wmem_max" Node Name Current Configured Required Status Comment ---------------- ------------ ------------ ------------ ------------ ------------ rac5 1048576 1048576 1048576 passed rac4 1048576 1048576 1048576 passed Result: Kernel parameter check passed for "wmem_max" Check: Kernel parameter for "aio-max-nr" Node Name Current Configured Required Status Comment ---------------- ------------ ------------ ------------ ------------ ------------ rac5 1048576 1048576 1048576 passed rac4 1048576 1048576 1048576 passed Result: Kernel parameter check passed for "aio-max-nr" Check: Package existence for "make" Node Name Available Required Status ------------ ------------------------ ------------------------ ---------- rac5 make-3.81-3.el5 make-3.81 passed rac4 make-3.81-3.el5 make-3.81 passed Result: Package existence check passed for "make" Check: Package existence for "binutils" Node Name Available Required Status ------------ ------------------------ ------------------------ ---------- rac5 binutils-2.17.50.0.6-14.el5 binutils-2.17.50.0.6 passed rac4 binutils-2.17.50.0.6-14.el5 binutils-2.17.50.0.6 passed Result: Package existence check passed for "binutils" Check: Package existence for "gcc(x86_64)" Node Name Available Required Status ------------ ------------------------ ------------------------ ---------- rac5 gcc(x86_64)-4.1.2-48.el5 gcc(x86_64)-4.1.2 passed rac4 gcc(x86_64)-4.1.2-48.el5 gcc(x86_64)-4.1.2 passed Result: Package existence check passed for "gcc(x86_64)" Check: Package existence for "libaio(x86_64)" Node Name Available Required Status ------------ ------------------------ ------------------------ ---------- rac5 libaio(x86_64)-0.3.106-5 libaio(x86_64)-0.3.106 passed rac4 libaio(x86_64)-0.3.106-5 libaio(x86_64)-0.3.106 passed Result: Package existence check passed for "libaio(x86_64)" Check: Package existence for "glibc(x86_64)" Node Name Available Required Status ------------ ------------------------ ------------------------ ---------- rac5 glibc(x86_64)-2.5-49 glibc(x86_64)-2.5-24 passed rac4 glibc(x86_64)-2.5-49 glibc(x86_64)-2.5-24 passed Result: Package existence check passed for "glibc(x86_64)" Check: Package existence for "compat-libstdc++-33(x86_64)" Node Name Available Required Status ------------ ------------------------ ------------------------ ---------- rac5 compat-libstdc++-33(x86_64)-3.2.3-61 compat-libstdc++-33(x86_64)-3.2.3 passed rac4 compat-libstdc++-33(x86_64)-3.2.3-61 compat-libstdc++-33(x86_64)-3.2.3 passed Result: Package existence check passed for "compat-libstdc++-33(x86_64)" Check: Package existence for "elfutils-libelf(x86_64)" Node Name Available Required Status ------------ ------------------------ ------------------------ ---------- rac5 elfutils-libelf(x86_64)-0.137-3.el5 elfutils-libelf(x86_64)-0.125 passed rac4 elfutils-libelf(x86_64)-0.137-3.el5 elfutils-libelf(x86_64)-0.125 passed Result: Package existence check passed for "elfutils-libelf(x86_64)" Check: Package existence for "elfutils-libelf-devel" Node Name Available Required Status ------------ ------------------------ ------------------------ ---------- rac5 elfutils-libelf-devel-0.137-3.el5 elfutils-libelf-devel-0.125 passed rac4 elfutils-libelf-devel-0.137-3.el5 elfutils-libelf-devel-0.125 passed Result: Package existence check passed for "elfutils-libelf-devel" Check: Package existence for "glibc-common" Node Name Available Required Status ------------ ------------------------ ------------------------ ---------- rac5 glibc-common-2.5-49 glibc-common-2.5 passed rac4 glibc-common-2.5-49 glibc-common-2.5 passed Result: Package existence check passed for "glibc-common" Check: Package existence for "glibc-devel(x86_64)" Node Name Available Required Status ------------ ------------------------ ------------------------ ---------- rac5 glibc-devel(x86_64)-2.5-49 glibc-devel(x86_64)-2.5 passed rac4 glibc-devel(x86_64)-2.5-49 glibc-devel(x86_64)-2.5 passed Result: Package existence check passed for "glibc-devel(x86_64)" Check: Package existence for "glibc-headers" Node Name Available Required Status ------------ ------------------------ ------------------------ ---------- rac5 glibc-headers-2.5-49 glibc-headers-2.5 passed rac4 glibc-headers-2.5-49 glibc-headers-2.5 passed Result: Package existence check passed for "glibc-headers" Check: Package existence for "gcc-c++(x86_64)" Node Name Available Required Status ------------ ------------------------ ------------------------ ---------- rac5 gcc-c++(x86_64)-4.1.2-48.el5 gcc-c++(x86_64)-4.1.2 passed rac4 gcc-c++(x86_64)-4.1.2-48.el5 gcc-c++(x86_64)-4.1.2 passed Result: Package existence check passed for "gcc-c++(x86_64)" Check: Package existence for "libaio-devel(x86_64)" Node Name Available Required Status ------------ ------------------------ ------------------------ ---------- rac5 libaio-devel(x86_64)-0.3.106-5 libaio-devel(x86_64)-0.3.106 passed rac4 libaio-devel(x86_64)-0.3.106-5 libaio-devel(x86_64)-0.3.106 passed Result: Package existence check passed for "libaio-devel(x86_64)" Check: Package existence for "libgcc(x86_64)" Node Name Available Required Status ------------ ------------------------ ------------------------ ---------- rac5 libgcc(x86_64)-4.1.2-48.el5 libgcc(x86_64)-4.1.2 passed rac4 libgcc(x86_64)-4.1.2-48.el5 libgcc(x86_64)-4.1.2 passed Result: Package existence check passed for "libgcc(x86_64)" Check: Package existence for "libstdc++(x86_64)" Node Name Available Required Status ------------ ------------------------ ------------------------ ---------- rac5 libstdc++(x86_64)-4.1.2-48.el5 libstdc++(x86_64)-4.1.2 passed rac4 libstdc++(x86_64)-4.1.2-48.el5 libstdc++(x86_64)-4.1.2 passed Result: Package existence check passed for "libstdc++(x86_64)" Check: Package existence for "libstdc++-devel(x86_64)" Node Name Available Required Status ------------ ------------------------ ------------------------ ---------- rac5 libstdc++-devel(x86_64)-4.1.2-48.el5 libstdc++-devel(x86_64)-4.1.2 passed rac4 libstdc++-devel(x86_64)-4.1.2-48.el5 libstdc++-devel(x86_64)-4.1.2 passed Result: Package existence check passed for "libstdc++-devel(x86_64)" Check: Package existence for "sysstat" Node Name Available Required Status ------------ ------------------------ ------------------------ ---------- rac5 sysstat-7.0.2-3.el5 sysstat-7.0.2 passed rac4 sysstat-7.0.2-3.el5 sysstat-7.0.2 passed Result: Package existence check passed for "sysstat" Check: Package existence for "ksh" Node Name Available Required Status ------------ ------------------------ ------------------------ ---------- rac5 ksh-20100202-1.el5 ksh-20060214 passed rac4 ksh-20100202-1.el5 ksh-20060214 passed Result: Package existence check passed for "ksh" Checking for multiple users with UID value 0 Result: Check for multiple users with UID value 0 passed Check: Current group ID Result: Current group ID check passed Starting check for consistency of primary group of root user Node Name Status ------------------------------------ ------------------------ rac5 passed rac4 passed Check for consistency of root user's primary group passed Starting Clock synchronization checks using Network Time Protocol(NTP)... NTP Configuration file check started... Network Time Protocol(NTP) configuration file not found on any of the nodes. Oracle Cluster Time Synchronization Service(CTSS) can be used instead of NTP for time synchronization on the cluster nodes No NTP Daemons or Services were found to be running Result: Clock synchronization check using Network Time Protocol(NTP) passed Checking Core file name pattern consistency... Core file name pattern consistency check passed. Checking to make sure user "oracle" is not in "root" group Node Name Status Comment ------------ ------------------------ ------------------------ rac5 passed does not exist rac4 passed does not exist Result: User "oracle" is not part of "root" group. Check passed Check default user file creation mask Node Name Available Required Comment ------------ ------------------------ ------------------------ ---------- rac5 0022 0022 passed rac4 0022 0022 passed Result: Default user file creation mask check passed Checking consistency of file "/etc/resolv.conf" across nodes Checking the file "/etc/resolv.conf" to make sure only one of domain and search entries is defined File "/etc/resolv.conf" does not have both domain and search entries defined Checking if domain entry in file "/etc/resolv.conf" is consistent across the nodes... domain entry in file "/etc/resolv.conf" is consistent across nodes Checking if search entry in file "/etc/resolv.conf" is consistent across the nodes... search entry in file "/etc/resolv.conf" is consistent across nodes Checking file "/etc/resolv.conf" to make sure that only one search entry is defined All nodes have one search entry defined in file "/etc/resolv.conf" Checking all nodes to make sure that search entry is "domain.net" as found on node "rac5" All nodes of the cluster have same value for 'search' Checking DNS response time for an unreachable node Node Name Status ------------------------------------ ------------------------ rac5 passed rac4 passed The DNS response time for an unreachable node is within acceptable limit on all nodes File "/etc/resolv.conf" is consistent across nodes UDev attributes check for OCR locations started... Result: UDev attributes check passed for OCR locations UDev attributes check for Voting Disk locations started... Result: UDev attributes check passed for Voting Disk locations Check: Time zone consistency Result: Time zone consistency check passed Checking VIP configuration. Checking VIP Subnet configuration. Check for VIP Subnet configuration passed. Checking VIP reachability Check for VIP reachability passed. Checking Oracle Cluster Voting Disk configuration... ASM Running check passed. ASM is running on all specified nodes Oracle Cluster Voting Disk configuration check passed Clusterware version consistency passed Pre-check for cluster services setup was successful.Resolve any failed pre-reqs steps before proceeding. Metalink notes at the end and from two earlier posts may help in resolving some of the issues.
As stated on Oracle documentation GI upgrades are rolling upgrades even though all instances are selected. Below is the status of the cluster before the start of software installation.(crs_stat is depreciated)
crs_stat -t Name Type Target State Host ------------------------------------------------------------ ora....ERDG.dg ora....up.type ONLINE ONLINE rac4 ora.DATA.dg ora....up.type ONLINE ONLINE rac4 ora.FLASH.dg ora....up.type ONLINE ONLINE rac4 ora....ER.lsnr ora....er.type ONLINE ONLINE rac4 ora....N1.lsnr ora....er.type ONLINE ONLINE rac4 ora.asm ora.asm.type ONLINE ONLINE rac4 ora.eons ora.eons.type ONLINE ONLINE rac4 ora.gsd ora.gsd.type OFFLINE OFFLINE ora....network ora....rk.type ONLINE ONLINE rac4 ora.oc4j ora.oc4j.type OFFLINE OFFLINE ora.ons ora.ons.type ONLINE ONLINE rac4 ora.rac11g2.db ora....se.type ONLINE ONLINE rac4 ora....SM1.asm application ONLINE ONLINE rac4 ora....C4.lsnr application ONLINE ONLINE rac4 ora.rac4.gsd application OFFLINE OFFLINE ora.rac4.ons application ONLINE ONLINE rac4 ora.rac4.vip ora....t1.type ONLINE ONLINE rac4 ora....SM2.asm application ONLINE ONLINE rac5 ora....C5.lsnr application ONLINE ONLINE rac5 ora.rac5.gsd application OFFLINE OFFLINE ora.rac5.ons application ONLINE ONLINE rac5 ora.rac5.vip ora....t1.type ONLINE ONLINE rac5 ora....ry.acfs ora....fs.type ONLINE ONLINE rac4 ora.scan1.vip ora....ip.type ONLINE ONLINE rac4Unset Oracle environment variables
$ unset ORACLE_BASE $ unset ORACLE_HOME $ unset ORACLE_SIDand run the 11.2.0.3 installer
By default all the nodes are selected but cluster could be upgraded in a rolling fashion.
Select a new location for the out of place upgrade
The rolling upgrade begins with the running of rootupgrade.sh. Up until this point the exisitng cluster was up and running. Running rootupgrade.sh one node at a time will achieve the rolling upgrade.
To illustrate the rolling upgrade one instance is shutdown before the running of rootupgrade.sh (this is not necessary as rootupgrade.sh will shutdown all cluster related resources on the node which rootupgrade.sh is run).
srvctl stop home -o $ORACLE_HOME -s status -n rac4 srvctl status database -d rac11g2 Instance rac11g21 is not running on node rac4 Instance rac11g22 is running on node rac5Instance rac11g22 will remain open on rac5 while rac4 is being upgraded.
# ./rootupgrade.sh Performing root user operation for Oracle 11g Entries will be added to the /etc/oratab file as needed by Database Configuration Assistant when a database is created Finished running generic part of root script. Now product-specific root actions will be performed. Using configuration parameter file: /opt/app/11.2.0/grid3/crs/install/crsconfig_params Creating trace directory ASM upgrade has started on first node. CRS-2791: Starting shutdown of Oracle High Availability Services-managed resources on 'rac4' CRS-2673: Attempting to stop 'ora.crsd' on 'rac4' CRS-2790: Starting shutdown of Cluster Ready Services-managed resources on 'rac4' CRS-2673: Attempting to stop 'ora.CLUSTERDG.dg' on 'rac4' CRS-2673: Attempting to stop 'ora.registry.acfs' on 'rac4' CRS-2673: Attempting to stop 'ora.DATA.dg' on 'rac4' CRS-2673: Attempting to stop 'ora.FLASH.dg' on 'rac4' CRS-2673: Attempting to stop 'ora.LISTENER_SCAN1.lsnr' on 'rac4' CRS-2673: Attempting to stop 'ora.LISTENER.lsnr' on 'rac4' CRS-2677: Stop of 'ora.registry.acfs' on 'rac4' succeeded CRS-2677: Stop of 'ora.LISTENER_SCAN1.lsnr' on 'rac4' succeeded CRS-2673: Attempting to stop 'ora.scan1.vip' on 'rac4' CRS-2677: Stop of 'ora.LISTENER.lsnr' on 'rac4' succeeded CRS-2673: Attempting to stop 'ora.rac4.vip' on 'rac4' CRS-2677: Stop of 'ora.scan1.vip' on 'rac4' succeeded CRS-2672: Attempting to start 'ora.scan1.vip' on 'rac5' CRS-2677: Stop of 'ora.rac4.vip' on 'rac4' succeeded CRS-2672: Attempting to start 'ora.rac4.vip' on 'rac5' CRS-2676: Start of 'ora.scan1.vip' on 'rac5' succeeded CRS-2672: Attempting to start 'ora.LISTENER_SCAN1.lsnr' on 'rac5' CRS-2676: Start of 'ora.rac4.vip' on 'rac5' succeeded CRS-2676: Start of 'ora.LISTENER_SCAN1.lsnr' on 'rac5' succeeded CRS-2677: Stop of 'ora.CLUSTERDG.dg' on 'rac4' succeeded CRS-2677: Stop of 'ora.DATA.dg' on 'rac4' succeeded CRS-2677: Stop of 'ora.FLASH.dg' on 'rac4' succeeded CRS-2673: Attempting to stop 'ora.asm' on 'rac4' CRS-2677: Stop of 'ora.asm' on 'rac4' succeeded CRS-2673: Attempting to stop 'ora.eons' on 'rac4' CRS-2673: Attempting to stop 'ora.ons' on 'rac4' CRS-2677: Stop of 'ora.ons' on 'rac4' succeeded CRS-2673: Attempting to stop 'ora.net1.network' on 'rac4' CRS-2677: Stop of 'ora.net1.network' on 'rac4' succeeded CRS-2677: Stop of 'ora.eons' on 'rac4' succeeded CRS-2792: Shutdown of Cluster Ready Services-managed resources on 'rac4' has completed CRS-2677: Stop of 'ora.crsd' on 'rac4' succeeded CRS-2673: Attempting to stop 'ora.gpnpd' on 'rac4' CRS-2673: Attempting to stop 'ora.cssdmonitor' on 'rac4' CRS-2673: Attempting to stop 'ora.ctssd' on 'rac4' CRS-2673: Attempting to stop 'ora.evmd' on 'rac4' CRS-2673: Attempting to stop 'ora.asm' on 'rac4' CRS-2673: Attempting to stop 'ora.mdnsd' on 'rac4' CRS-2673: Attempting to stop 'ora.drivers.acfs' on 'rac4' CRS-2677: Stop of 'ora.cssdmonitor' on 'rac4' succeeded CRS-2677: Stop of 'ora.gpnpd' on 'rac4' succeeded CRS-2677: Stop of 'ora.evmd' on 'rac4' succeeded CRS-2677: Stop of 'ora.mdnsd' on 'rac4' succeeded CRS-2677: Stop of 'ora.ctssd' on 'rac4' succeeded CRS-2677: Stop of 'ora.drivers.acfs' on 'rac4' succeeded CRS-2677: Stop of 'ora.asm' on 'rac4' succeeded CRS-2673: Attempting to stop 'ora.cssd' on 'rac4' CRS-2677: Stop of 'ora.cssd' on 'rac4' succeeded CRS-2673: Attempting to stop 'ora.diskmon' on 'rac4' CRS-2673: Attempting to stop 'ora.gipcd' on 'rac4' CRS-2677: Stop of 'ora.gipcd' on 'rac4' succeeded CRS-2677: Stop of 'ora.diskmon' on 'rac4' succeeded CRS-2793: Shutdown of Oracle High Availability Services-managed resources on 'rac4' has completed CRS-4133: Oracle High Availability Services has been stopped. OLR initialization - successful Replacing Clusterware entries in inittab clscfg: EXISTING configuration version 5 detected. clscfg: version 5 is 11g Release 2. Successfully accumulated necessary OCR keys. Creating OCR keys for user 'root', privgrp 'root'.. Operation successful. Preparing packages for installation... cvuqdisk-1.0.9-1 Configure Oracle Grid Infrastructure for a Cluster ... succeededAt the end of the upgrade script run the shutdown instance will be up.
srvctl status database -d rac11g2 Instance rac11g21 is running on node rac4 Instance rac11g22 is running on node rac5Node rac5 is upgraded next.
srvctl stop home -o $ORACLE_HOME -s status -n rac5 srvctl status database -d rac11g2 Instance rac11g21 is running on node rac4 Instance rac11g22 is not running on node rac5Now rac11g21 on rac4 will remain open while rac5 is upgraded. (shutdown of instance is not necessary)
# ./rootupgrade.sh Performing root user operation for Oracle 11g Entries will be added to the /etc/oratab file as needed by Database Configuration Assistant when a database is created Finished running generic part of root script. Now product-specific root actions will be performed. Using configuration parameter file: /opt/app/11.2.0/grid3/crs/install/crsconfig_params Creating trace directory CRS-2791: Starting shutdown of Oracle High Availability Services-managed resources on 'rac5' CRS-2673: Attempting to stop 'ora.crsd' on 'rac5' CRS-2790: Starting shutdown of Cluster Ready Services-managed resources on 'rac5' CRS-2673: Attempting to stop 'ora.LISTENER.lsnr' on 'rac5' CRS-2673: Attempting to stop 'ora.CLUSTERDG.dg' on 'rac5' CRS-2673: Attempting to stop 'ora.registry.acfs' on 'rac5' CRS-2673: Attempting to stop 'ora.DATA.dg' on 'rac5' CRS-2673: Attempting to stop 'ora.FLASH.dg' on 'rac5' CRS-2673: Attempting to stop 'ora.LISTENER_SCAN1.lsnr' on 'rac5' CRS-2677: Stop of 'ora.LISTENER.lsnr' on 'rac5' succeeded CRS-2673: Attempting to stop 'ora.rac5.vip' on 'rac5' CRS-2677: Stop of 'ora.rac5.vip' on 'rac5' succeeded CRS-2672: Attempting to start 'ora.rac5.vip' on 'rac4' CRS-2677: Stop of 'ora.registry.acfs' on 'rac5' succeeded CRS-2677: Stop of 'ora.LISTENER_SCAN1.lsnr' on 'rac5' succeeded CRS-2673: Attempting to stop 'ora.scan1.vip' on 'rac5' CRS-2676: Start of 'ora.rac5.vip' on 'rac4' succeeded CRS-2677: Stop of 'ora.scan1.vip' on 'rac5' succeeded CRS-2672: Attempting to start 'ora.scan1.vip' on 'rac4' CRS-2676: Start of 'ora.scan1.vip' on 'rac4' succeeded CRS-2672: Attempting to start 'ora.LISTENER_SCAN1.lsnr' on 'rac4' CRS-2676: Start of 'ora.LISTENER_SCAN1.lsnr' on 'rac4' succeeded CRS-2677: Stop of 'ora.CLUSTERDG.dg' on 'rac5' succeeded CRS-2677: Stop of 'ora.DATA.dg' on 'rac5' succeeded CRS-2677: Stop of 'ora.FLASH.dg' on 'rac5' succeeded CRS-2673: Attempting to stop 'ora.asm' on 'rac5' CRS-2677: Stop of 'ora.asm' on 'rac5' succeeded CRS-2673: Attempting to stop 'ora.eons' on 'rac5' CRS-2673: Attempting to stop 'ora.ons' on 'rac5' CRS-2677: Stop of 'ora.ons' on 'rac5' succeeded CRS-2673: Attempting to stop 'ora.net1.network' on 'rac5' CRS-2677: Stop of 'ora.net1.network' on 'rac5' succeeded CRS-2677: Stop of 'ora.eons' on 'rac5' succeeded CRS-2792: Shutdown of Cluster Ready Services-managed resources on 'rac5' has completed CRS-2677: Stop of 'ora.crsd' on 'rac5' succeeded CRS-2673: Attempting to stop 'ora.cssdmonitor' on 'rac5' CRS-2673: Attempting to stop 'ora.ctssd' on 'rac5' CRS-2673: Attempting to stop 'ora.evmd' on 'rac5' CRS-2673: Attempting to stop 'ora.asm' on 'rac5' CRS-2673: Attempting to stop 'ora.drivers.acfs' on 'rac5' CRS-2673: Attempting to stop 'ora.mdnsd' on 'rac5' CRS-2677: Stop of 'ora.cssdmonitor' on 'rac5' succeeded CRS-2677: Stop of 'ora.evmd' on 'rac5' succeeded CRS-2677: Stop of 'ora.mdnsd' on 'rac5' succeeded CRS-2677: Stop of 'ora.ctssd' on 'rac5' succeeded CRS-2677: Stop of 'ora.drivers.acfs' on 'rac5' succeeded CRS-2677: Stop of 'ora.asm' on 'rac5' succeeded CRS-2673: Attempting to stop 'ora.cssd' on 'rac5' CRS-2677: Stop of 'ora.cssd' on 'rac5' succeeded CRS-2673: Attempting to stop 'ora.gpnpd' on 'rac5' CRS-2673: Attempting to stop 'ora.diskmon' on 'rac5' CRS-2677: Stop of 'ora.gpnpd' on 'rac5' succeeded CRS-2673: Attempting to stop 'ora.gipcd' on 'rac5' CRS-2677: Stop of 'ora.diskmon' on 'rac5' succeeded CRS-2677: Stop of 'ora.gipcd' on 'rac5' succeeded CRS-2793: Shutdown of Oracle High Availability Services-managed resources on 'rac5' has completed CRS-4133: Oracle High Availability Services has been stopped. OLR initialization - successful Replacing Clusterware entries in inittab clscfg: EXISTING configuration version 5 detected. clscfg: version 5 is 11g Release 2. Successfully accumulated necessary OCR keys. Creating OCR keys for user 'root', privgrp 'root'.. Operation successful. Started to upgrade the Oracle Clusterware. This operation may take a few minutes. Started to upgrade the CSS. Started to upgrade the CRS. The CRS was successfully upgraded. Oracle Clusterware operating version was successfully set to 11.2.0.3.0 ASM upgrade has finished on last node. Preparing packages for installation... cvuqdisk-1.0.9-1 Configure Oracle Grid Infrastructure for a Cluster ... succeededAfter the uprade script run instance is up and running
srvctl status database -d rac11g2 Instance rac11g21 is running on node rac4 Instance rac11g22 is running on node rac5Click the ok button on the popup window and continue the remaining steps.
Check the clusterware version has changed to 11.2.0.3
crsctl query crs activeversion Oracle Clusterware active version on the cluster is [11.2.0.3.0] crsctl query crs softwareversion Oracle Clusterware version on node [rac5] is [11.2.0.3.0] crsctl query crs softwareversion rac4 Oracle Clusterware version on node [rac4] is [11.2.0.3.0]Next step is to upgrade the Oracle database software. In this case it will be done as an in-place upgrade (which is not recommended by Oracle). Oracle In-place documentation.
Inplace upgrade would require all instances to be shutdown.
srvctl stop home -o $ORACLE_HOME -s status -n `hostname -s` # run on all nodesMake a backup of following files and folders in the existing Oracle home (11.2.0.1 in this case)
ORACLE_HOME/dbs ORACLE_HOME/network/admin ORACLE_HOME/owb/bin/admin ORACLE_HOME/hostname_dbname ORACLE_HOME/oc4j/j2ee/OC4J_DBConsole_hostname_dbname Following shell command can speed things up cd $ORACLE_HOME tar -cvzf 11.2.tgz ./dbs ./network/admin ./owb/bin/admin ./`hostname`_$ORACLE_SID ./oc4j/j2ee/OC4J_DBConsole_`hostname`_$ORACLE_SIDTo install the new software inplace the current oracle home must be detached from the inventory.
cat inventory.xml
...
<HOME NAME="OraDb11g_home1" LOC="/opt/app/oracle/product/11.2.0/db_1" TYPE="O" IDX="2">
<NODE_LIST>
<NODE NAME="rac4"/>
<NODE NAME="rac5"/>
</NODE_LIST>
</HOME>
...
/opt/app/oracle/product/11.2.0/db_1/oui/bin/runInstaller -detachHome ORACLE_HOME="/opt/app/oracle/product/11.2.0/db_1"
Starting Oracle Universal Installer...
Checking swap space: must be greater than 500 MB. Actual 3912 MB Passed
The inventory pointer is located at /etc/oraInst.loc
The inventory is located at /opt/app/oraInventory
'DetachHome' was successful.
If there's space move the existing Oracle home to a temporary location. If not remove it and create an empty directory for the new software. Run installer from the new Oracle software directory and select software only option.
Run DBUA from the newly installed Oracle home.
To uninstall old GI
# chmod -R 755 /opt/app/11.2.0/grid # chown -R oracle /opt/app/11.2.0/grid # chown oracle /opt/app/11.2.0 (change it back to root after uninstall if not old GI home directory will not be removed)Use the standalone deinstall tool to remove the old GI home
./deinstall -home /opt/app/11.2.0/grid -local Location of logs /opt/app/oraInventory/logs/ ############ ORACLE DEINSTALL & DECONFIG TOOL START ############ ######################### CHECK OPERATION START ######################### ## [START] Install check configuration ## Checking for existence of the Oracle home location /opt/app/11.2.0/grid Oracle Home type selected for deinstall is: Oracle Grid Infrastructure for a Cluster Oracle Base selected for deinstall is: /opt/app/oracle Checking for existence of central inventory location /opt/app/oraInventory Checking for existence of the Oracle Grid Infrastructure home /opt/app/11.2.0/grid3 The following nodes are part of this cluster: rac4,rac5 Checking for sufficient temp space availability on node(s) : 'rac4,rac5' ## [END] Install check configuration ## Traces log file: /opt/app/oraInventory/logs//crsdc.log Network Configuration check config START Network de-configuration trace file location: /opt/app/oraInventory/logs/netdc_check2012-02-17_06-14-02-PM.log Network Configuration check config END Asm Check Configuration START ASM de-configuration trace file location: /opt/app/oraInventory/logs/asmcadc_check2012-02-17_06-14-03-PM.log ######################### CHECK OPERATION END ######################### ####################### CHECK OPERATION SUMMARY ####################### Oracle Grid Infrastructure Home is: /opt/app/11.2.0/grid3 The cluster node(s) on which the Oracle home deinstallation will be performed are:rac4,rac5 Since -local option has been specified, the Oracle home will be deinstalled only on the local node, 'rac4', and the global configuration will be removed. Oracle Home selected for deinstall is: /opt/app/11.2.0/grid Inventory Location where the Oracle home registered is: /opt/app/oraInventory The home being deconfigured is NOT a configured Grid Infrastructure home (/opt/app/11.2.0/grid3) Option -local will not modify any ASM configuration. Do you want to continue (y - yes, n - no)? [n]: Y A log of this session will be written to: '/opt/app/oraInventory/logs/deinstall_deconfig2012-02-17_06-13-57-PM.out' Any error messages from this session will be written to: '/opt/app/oraInventory/logs/deinstall_deconfig2012-02-17_06-13-57-PM.err' ######################## CLEAN OPERATION START ######################## ASM de-configuration trace file location: /opt/app/oraInventory/logs/asmcadc_clean2012-02-17_06-14-29-PM.log ASM Clean Configuration END Network Configuration clean config START Network de-configuration trace file location: /opt/app/oraInventory/logs/netdc_clean2012-02-17_06-14-29-PM.log De-configuring Naming Methods configuration file... Naming Methods configuration file de-configured successfully. De-configuring backup files... Backup files de-configured successfully. The network configuration has been cleaned up successfully. Network Configuration clean config END Setting the force flag to false Setting the force flag to cleanup the Oracle Base Oracle Universal Installer clean START Detach Oracle home '/opt/app/11.2.0/grid' from the central inventory on the local node : Done The Oracle Base directory '/opt/app/oracle' will not be removed on local node. The directory is in use by Oracle Home '/opt/app/11.2.0/grid3'. Oracle Universal Installer cleanup was successful. Oracle Universal Installer clean END ## [START] Oracle install clean ## Clean install operation removing temporary directory '/tmp/deinstall2012-02-17_06-13-56PM' on node 'rac4' ## [END] Oracle install clean ## ######################### CLEAN OPERATION END ######################### ####################### CLEAN OPERATION SUMMARY ####################### The home being deconfigured is NOT a configured Grid Infrastructure home (/opt/app/11.2.0/grid3) Successfully detached Oracle home '/opt/app/11.2.0/grid' from the central inventory on the local node. Failed to delete directory '/opt/app/11.2.0/grid' on the local node. Oracle Universal Installer cleanup was successful. Oracle deinstall tool successfully cleaned up temporary directories. ####################################################################### ############# ORACLE DEINSTALL & DECONFIG TOOL END #############
Useful metalink notes
Oracle Grid Infrastructure 11.2.0.2 Installation or Upgrade may fail due to Multicasting Requirement [ID 1212703.1]
Pre-requsite for 11.2.0.1 to 11.2.0.2 ASM Rolling Upgrade [ID 1274629.1]
11.2.0.1 to 11.2.0.2 ASM Rolling Upgrade [ID 1274629.1]
Things to Consider Before Upgrading to 11.2.0.3 Grid Infrastructure/ASM [ID 1363369.1]
Oracle Clusterware (CRS or GI) Rolling Upgrades [ID 338706.1]
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